Martha Grover is an author, poet, and artist living in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of One More for the People (Perfect Day Publishing) and The End of My Career (Perfect Day Publishing). The End of My Career was a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards in creative nonfiction in 2017. Her work has also appeared in The Collagist, Vol.1 Brooklyn, and The Portland Mercury, among others. She has been publishing her zine, Somnambulist, since 2003. Martha is currently at work on a graphic memoir. When she is not writing, Martha is making zines, art, and selling Real Estate.

Martha's work deals with themes of family, childhood, place and work. Martha's work has been described by OBA Judge Maggie Nelson as " "In a style one might describe as raucously droll, Grover takes the decidedly mundane and rotates in the light of her dead-aim wit. Here’s one page in entirety, which combines a Lydia Davis-esque minimalism with Grover’s wry feminism: “I ask my father to read an article about male entitlement and emotional labor. ‘Can you just tell me what it says?’ he says.” The universe here sketched—punctuated by cleaning jobs, so-so sex, the toll of chronic illness, the growing seep of the internet into our lives—is both original and timely, and Grover is a curious, companionable guide throughout."

Jeff Vandermeer, NYT bestselling author of Borne and the Southern Reach Trilogy tweeted: "I devoured Martha Grover's The End of My Career on the plane from Portland to San Francisco. Frank, funny, sad at times--beautifully observed. Basically, it doesn't matter what she writes, I'm gonna want to read it. She's that kind of writer."

The Los Angeles Review of Books: "Grover’s interests and observations, such as the moral compromises of day jobs and the impact of escalating housing prices, are universal, and her willingness to tell the truth to herself and others encourages an intimate relationship with her readers no matter where they live. That is also the reason it doesn’t matter whether this work is a novel or a memoir. Grover’s ability to engage her reader trumps any categorization of her prose. She’s playing an entirely different game, one that only requires the author to connect."

Bud Smith, author of Double Bird. "The End of My Career by Martha Grover, is an excellent memoir, it kind of laughs in the face of death, from the point of view of a woman working lousy jobs and stricken with a disease that she keeps punting up the field like a football, to deal with later, like you do all things."

Martha is currently at work on a graphic memoir. When she is not writing, Martha is making zines, art, and selling Real Estate.